Adjusting lever for cultivators and the like



Aug. 25, 1931. B. T. SPRY 1,320,097

ADJUSTING LEVER FOR CULTIVATORS AND THE LIKE Filed Nov. 22. 1929 II%IIIIIIIIIIII I Patented Aug. 25, 1931 Ui ii'i iiti STATES PATENT OFFICE BURGESS '1. SPRY, OF SAN DIMAS, CALIFORNIA ADJUSTING LEVER FOR CULTIVATORS AND THE LIKE Application filed November 22, 1929. Serial No. 409,045.

This invention relates to an adjusting lever This fin is so proportioned that when the for use in connection with cultivators and handle is disposed in alinement with the the like. lever as shown in Figure 3', the end of the It is well known to those skilled in the art fin is spaced from the notched segment and that when the cultivator is used in an orchard, said lever is permitted to swing about its 7 the upstanding lever used for raising and fulcrum 4. By swinging the handle 6 laterlowering the soil engaging elements fr-eally and downwardly as shown, for example, qucntly becomes caught in the overhanging in Figures 1 and 2, the fin 8 will enter the branches of the trees. adjacent notch 3. Thus the lever will be m It is an object of the present invention to locked against movement relative to the segprovide a structure of this character having ment. Furthermore, the handle will be its handle portion so mounted as to be swung lowered so that it will not become caught in downwardly out of the way, the handle, when overhanging branches of trees when the imin lowered position, constituting a means for provements are used on orchard cultivators engaging a notched segment for the purpose and the like.

of holding the lever and the parts controlled What 1S clalmed 1s: thereby against movement. 1. In a cultivator or the like, the combina- With the foregoing and other objects in tion with a notched segment, of a lever a-iew which will appear as the description mounted to swing relative to the segment, a proceeds, the invention resides in the comhandle hingedly connected to the lever and bination and arrangement of parts and in the foidable downwardly onto the segment, and details of construction hereinafter described an arcuate notch engaging element concenand claimed,it being understood that changes trio with the pivot of the handle and rotatin the precise embodiment of the invention abl with th ha dl ab t aid iv t into as herein disclosed may be made within the d t f engagement ith th segment scope of what is claimed without departing h th handl i low r d and raised reironi the spirit of the invention. ti ly,

in the accompanying r wing the p 2. The combination with a segment having it'erred form of the invention has been show n. t h f a l v unted to wing relative so in Said draw ng to the segment, a handle hingedly connected ig r 1 is a i elevation of a notched thereto and foldable downwardly onto the segment to which the presentimprovements t, d an {II-(mate fi arried by the are applied, the handle portion of the lever h dl d Concentric ith th i t th being shown lowered into engagement with f id fi b i g bl ith the handle 5 the segment. into engagement with a notch in'the segment Figllre 2 is a Section on line Z Figure when the handle is folded and out of said 19%? being Shown in eleVafiOnnotch when the handle is in alinement with Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 t lever I showing the lever extended upwardly to I t ti th t I l i th foregomg permit shitting thereof. as my own. I have hereto afiixed my signature. Referring to the figures by characters of BURGESS T, SPRY, rei rence, 1 designates a segmentadapted to be attached to the frame of a cultivator or the like, a portion of which has been in d1- o cated at 2, this segment being formed with a series of notches 3 radiating from a center i where a lever 5 is fulcrumed. This lever has a hen lie portion 6 hingedly connected thereto at 7 and that portion of the handle oined so to the lever is formed with an arcuate tin 8. 

